„One can follow any religion, one can follow any practice or path, but one must be humane.“

Quelle: 1980s, Mind Without Measure (1984), p. 97
Kontext: How can one be compassionate if you belong to any religion, follow any guru, believe in something, believe in your scriptures, and so on, attached to a conclusion? When you accept your guru, you have come to a conclusion, or when you strongly believe in god or in a saviour, this or that, can there be compassion? You may do social work, help the poor out of pity, out of sympathy, out of charity, but is all that love and compassion?

Quelle: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Prophet

Quelle: Discipleship (1937), Discipleship and the Cross, p. 85.
Kontext: "If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. … "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves … and take up their cross."

Quelle: "Energy: basic facts for an informed debate" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRAMA4mT0z0, 2012.

Aleph (2011)

Mrs. Reynolds and Five Earlier Novelettes (1952) Pt. 1 (written 1940-1943)

Quelle: Multi-Secularism: A New Agenda, (2014), p. 338

I Don't Know One Editor In India Who Is Well-Read

24 December 1981
The Teachings of Babaji

Pg. 23.
Against Method (1975)

30 September 1982.
The Teachings of Babaji

Quelle: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 158
Kontext: One should not think, "My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

As quoted in http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/txt_ambedkar_salvation.html

R. S. Thomas : Priest and Poet, BBC TV (2 April 1972)
Kontext: Any form of orthodoxy is just not part of a poet's province … A poet must be able to claim … freedom to follow the vision of poetry, the imaginative vision of poetry … And in any case, poetry is religion, religion is poetry. The message of the New Testament is poetry. Christ was a poet, the New Testament is metaphor, the Resurrection is a metaphor; and I feel perfectly within my rights in approaching my whole vocation as priest and preacher as one who is to present poetry; and when I preach poetry I am preaching Christianity, and when one discusses Christianity one is discussing poetry in its imaginative aspects. … My work as a poet has to deal with the presentation of imaginative truth.

From 1980s onwards, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
Kontext: I never try to tell anybody else what to do, number one. And number two, I think that's what the individual is all about. Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule that I can give out, any command. We're all on the frontier, we're all in a great mystery — incredibly mysterious. Each one possesses exactly what each one is working out, and what each one works out relates to their particular set of circumstances of any one day, or any one place around the world.